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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m surprised there is a school who lets students miss 2 weeks of classes without a significant, valid, issue. But I’m old school and the LAC I went to took attendance and missing too many classes impacted your grade. Good for Harvard, I guess. [/quote] It's very hard to require students to produce evidence of a "significant, valid issue". For medical privacy reasons, faculty are not allowed to ask for doctor's notes. In the post-Covid age, any student who says they are contagious must be excused from in-person attendance. Bereavement, metal and physical health, job interviews, etc. are all reasons I think deserve latitude, but students abuse them and the universities cannot police that. Professors get a lat of pressure to allow students to make up work. Harvard's policy seems to be that students who miss two consecutive weeks of classes will be put on involuntary leave. That's unlikely to be effective at changing the culture. [/quote]
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